Should bicycles have names?

[Tunicates]

£120 is about what a yearly service on a good bike costs.
If you work out what a car or even a bus pass would cost for those journeys a year, you might find that you save the equivalent of at least a holiday somewhere nice.

I must say, I'm kind of with you on the inanimate object thing. I only give things names if they're people or they really seem to have character of their own - some bikes do one way or the other

- I think Mrs TaM secretly calls my computer 'Bitch'

[Jay_Benson]

I realise that I am going to sound a little silly here but you pay people to service your bikes? What do they do on the service?

I guess that there is a general session lubricating things likes chain, blocks, cables head races, bottom brackets etc

For the money you have mentioned they must be changing tyres, tubes brake blocks (stratches head for other things they could replace).

[Tunicates]

Originally Posted by Jay_Benson

I realise that I am going to sound a little silly here but you pay people to service your bikes? What do they do on the service?

I guess that there is a general session lubricating things likes chain, blocks, cables head races, bottom brackets etc

For the money you have mentioned they must be changing tyres, tubes brake blocks (stratches head for other things they could replace).

Correct - If you dont do any of that yourself and just take your bike to the shop once a year. Its the rough running cost of a commuter bike over a year. It often involves a full strip down and relube, and can take the best part of a day if done properly.